Open Middle®
Directions: Using the digits 1 to 6, at most once each time, fill in boxes and identify a shape in the blank to make as many of the following statements true as you can.
Hint
What shapes do you see in the picture?
Are there more of the same shapes?
Answer
Answers can vary, depending on student knowledge of shapes.
There are 6 rectangles in the picture
There are 3 circles in the picture
There are 2 triangles in the picture
There is 1 square in the picture
There are 6 rectangles in the picture
There are 3 circles in the picture
There are 2 triangles in the picture
There is 1 square in the picture
Source: Bryan Anderson
My Kinder team loved this activity. Do you have any more that you would be willing to share?
3 circles
2 triangles
3 rectangles
1 square
5 rectangles (1 tree trunk, 1chiminea,2 windows, and 1 door)
3 circles – sun, doorknob, circle window
2 triangles Tree and roof
1 square – outside structure
Six rectangles
Three circles
Two triangles
One square.
I am a teacher and I´m really stuck
Solved it! Obviously all circles!